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Should it really be so hard? Not if companies overturn long-standing beliefs about how to make money in their industry.
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Bottom quartile
98% do not
3rd
91% do not
90% do not
2nd
73% do not
Top quartile
Do you create new business models that provide defensible, scalable profit sources?
Disruption means creating your own new business model—before somebody else does it for you.
But that’s easier said than done.
We can’t
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Eighty percent of executives think their business
models are at risk. One leading factor: big tech companies entering new product categories.
Crossing the line
Report - McKinsey Global Institute
Digital America: A tale of the haves and have-mores
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Cumulative number of product launches by
major digital-platform providers
2015
1998
Others—eg,
finance,
real estate, and
healthcare
Telecom
Retail trade
Transportation,
warehousing
Entertainment,
recreation
Internet and
software services
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60
80
100
120
140
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